VIEW IN MY ROOM
United Kingdom
Sculpture, Digital on Glass
Size: 38.1 W x 22.4 H x 3 D in
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This mirror shows real-time tweets about depression. Every 10 seconds this mirror finds a tweet that has been posted less than a second ago and typewrites it onto this mirror. The tweet is anonymous and worldwide, giving you the chance to look at yourself in the reflection of someone's emotions in this present moment. Unfiltered and unregulated, it shows you the current struggle with mental illness in real-time. I suffered from a dark time, a sunken time. I almost didn't make it back. I made this mirror to show people it's okay, it's okay to feel depressed and to express it. From great darkness comes great strength, as we who can battle the darkest fight are the strongest and most brave. After making this mirror my life changed, friends, new and old saw me in a new light, one of honesty and acceptance for the daily struggle against mental illness. This mirror destroyed my career, people thought I had a mental break down, but at the same time, it freed me. You're not alone. This piece shows you that.
Original Created:2018
Subjects:People
Materials:Glass
Styles:Minimalism
Mediums:DigitalLEDGlassInteractiveLights
Sculpture:Digital on Glass
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:38.1 W x 22.4 H x 3 D in
Frame:Black
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Thomas Webb (b.1991) is a London based new media artist that investigates unexplored applications of technologies as a method for visualising digital artwork in a physical space. Webb works with video game engines, custom-written physics applications and 3D rendering software to recreate themes inside the computer; Hand-building various electronic machines and inventions to re-interpret these virtual artworks into hyper-realistic four-dimensional artworks. Webb challenges the barrier between the viewer and technology used to display computer-generated artwork to create a seemingly technology-free consummation. Webb invented the digital infinity mirror; an innovation of the infinity mirror using high power commercial LED displays, custom-built computer hardware and architectural dielectric glass. This combination of materials realises his vision of a digital medium that shifts in 4-dimensions as a function of each viewers perspective. Inside his artworks, he questions the real-life scenarios and consequences created through our newly acquired, daily use of technology. Harnessing real-time data feeds from mortality statistics, stock market prices and social media feeds to juxtapose a reflection on ultimate contemporary life. He is often touching on themes of mental health, addiction, big data and control as a guinea pig of the internet revolution and asking questions about the various implications of its application on modern society. In 2019 he contributed to the group-show ‘link in bio’ at the Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, curated by Anika Meier. He showed a real-time emotion recognition neural net that recreates the viewers facial expression in emojis. He presented a similar body of work for a larger installation in the atrium of Scope international contempiorary art show in Miami Beach during Art Basel. He has contributed to a solo-show, “STRANGERS” (2018) which harnessed real-time data depicting mortality rates and mental health on social media. He is a long-standing artistic collaborator with fashion brand Valentino; Building multiple installations including a six-story monolith in Seoul, South Korea, a triptych motion tracking digital infinity mirror installation in Munich, an AI recognition installation during Art Basel Switzerland, and hologram installations in Tokyo, Japan and Dubai, UAE.
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